Word: phenomenons
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...climate, accompanied by major disruptions to modern society. So far, though, even the experts have had to admit that while the earth has warmed an average of up to 1.1 degree F over the past 100 years, no solid evidence has emerged that this is anything but a natural phenomenon. And the uncertainty has given skeptics--especially Gingrichian politicians--plenty of ammunition to argue against taking the difficult, expensive steps required to stave off a largely hypothetical calamity...
...ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND Museum is hanging its shingle out in Cleveland, Ohio, a place that had nothing to do with the birth, infancy and childhood of the phenomenon called rock [MUSIC, Sept. 4]. The music began way before radio, TV, albums, cassettes or CDs. From Clarksville, Mississippi, came the blues, a real, dynamic, burning-for-the-truth-to-be-told music. This spirit moved swiftly from the delta to places like Memphis, Tennessee, and Tupelo, Mississippi. Then history changed forever when a young man named Elvis took this raw, untainted music from his heart and shared...
...first lesson, certainly not a new one, is that the Harvard administration and police department should do more to fight crime. Take the Peabody Terrace garage thefts, for example. Theft at the garage is not a new phenomenon. Similar incidents have happened before...
...Jerry Hannifin reports. (The first test was schedule for today at the FAA's Flight Technical Center near Atlantic City, but was delayed because of bad weather.) Hannifin says the NTSB, under considerable pressure to solve the mystery behind the worst air disaster since 1987, is exploring an aeronautical phenomenon called wake vortex. Under a long-suspected scenario, the Boeing 737 jet might have run into air turbulence created by the jet that preceded it into Pittsburgh International Airport. "The four-mile separation may prove not to have been enough," Hannifin says. If the new tests produce evidence to substantiate...
Symonds said one of his goals for the program was to expose students to a wide variety of the arts in order to avoid what he calls the "tracking phenomenon," in which students latch on to specific identities early on in their college careers...